I think I'm figuring out what's wrong with Lost this season. Last season, the show was mainly about a bunch of people stranded on an island after a place crash trying to survive. The whole mystery part of it was only peripheral. Or not really peripheral, but the fact that the people were trying to survive on an island after being in a horrible plane crash was always there and being dealt with. This season, the mystery has become the foccal point and the fact that they're a bunch of people stranded on an island after a plane crash isn't really dealt with anymore.

Are they trying to get off the island? How are they coping? Where are they living? Do they even seem to care that they're stuck on an island? They all seem to be pretty okay with the fact nobody knows where they are and they have no idea how to get off.

Also, what's up with all the other people stranded with the Lostaways? No, not "the Others" but all the people in the background who were part of the flight but don't say anything. If, as is suggested, all the "Lostaways" are people trying to find themselves or trying to atone for something, do all the other people have something they need to find or atone for? Are they all murders and convicts and Iraqi soldiers? Maybe evil accountants with Enron or boob job surgeons? Or are they just people sitting next to all the other people who just managed to be kind of collateral damage to the other character's redemption? And are they seeing dead relatives or horses too? And what do they think about the whole punching in the code thing?